Offloading numerical computing to Julia with a RESTful interface, or something like zeromq is certainly the way to go. On JuliaBox, Tanmay has made it trivial to wrap computation in an API and serve it wherever you want. He should probably be announcing it shortly. If you are interested, we would love to have you kicking the tires.
Other interfaces to look at could be IJulia and Jewel.jl. -viral On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:19:12 AM UTC+5:30, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Hello, > > I am building a web app for enterprise risk management. I've made some > progress, but considering some significant changes now before I am too > committed. My current platform is Java/Spring MVC on the back end (C) and > Jsp, javascript, and d3 for the front end (V) and I was using Java for > numerical modeling (M). Coming from a 20+ year background using Matlab, my > experience trying to do any serious numerical modeling in Java is a little > frustrating so far. While considering alternatives, e.g. Matlab Production > Server, R, Python, etc, I was naturally led to Julia and am only now > beginning to research it, but really like what I see so far. > > Despite my ambitious goals, I am ignorant about most of the technologies > I'm using and learning as I go. Do you have any suggestions about how I > might be able to fit Julia into my Spring MVC framework? How can I call > Julia from Java? I don't see anything obvious. How about setting up a Julia > server and communicating with it via RESTful API from Java? Has anyone > tried anything like that? I eventually want to run everything on AWS. > > A bigger change would be to ditch Java all together and build everything > either entirely in Julia or, I had the thought of building the plumbing in > Rust and do the numerical modeling in Julia. Thus, capturing the best of > both. Then, I'd be faced with the same question. How to call Julia from > Rust? Is that crazy? > > A possible solution for both scenarios might be to set up a Julia server > and design a RESTful API. How does that sound? How about security? Could > something like this be done if the data in sensitive? > > I appreciate any thoughts and I really admire what you're doing with > Julia. Reminds me of the glory days before I sold my soul to Wall Street > (PhD computational electromagnetics, UIUC, 2002, MIT Lincoln Lab, > 2002-2004). I'm considering trying to get back to academics to redeem > myself before its too late though :) > > Best regards, > Eric > > > > >
